By Mandy Tjew&hyphen;A&hyphen;Sin

As part of the Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award, Viola Tjew-A-Sin and I attended the Business and Science event, which consisted of six speed dates with companies, to talk about our product idea ‘Respiro’. It was a fun event and we learned a ton about the services companies could offer us, and also about how to patent our idea and eventually bring it to the market. It gave us a lot to think about and to consider. We are looking into subsidies and grants and the like.